Failed Global Initialization: BadValue logpath requires an absolute file path with windows services

Question

I am getting this error constantly while i am trying to install mongod using a configuration file. So, I am looking at this tutorial on Pluralsight on mongodb. The person\'s pro

Answer 1

echo logpath=C:/myProgra/MongoDB/log/mongo.log > "C:\MyProgram\MongoDB\mongod.cfg" C:\myprogram\MongoDB\Server\3.0\bin\mongod.exe --config "C:\myProgram\MongoDB\mongod.cfg" --install

Answer 2

Thanks for the suggestions guys. I just went with MongoDB's instructions on their website on installing mongod as a service in windows instead of Pluralsight tutorial's and it went well.

Answer 3

I got the same error

   **Failed Global Initialization: BadValue logpath requires an absolute file path with windows services**

as I was specifying log path folder in mongo.config but I have to specify a log file

  dbpath=C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.4\data\db
  logpath=C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.4\log
  diaglog=3

i changed my log file to

 dbpath=C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.4\data\db
 logpath=C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.4\log\mongo.log
 diaglog=3

and after that this command solved my problem. hope this workfor you as well.

 mongod.exe --config "C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.4\mongo.config" --install

then finally

net start MongoDB

Answer 4

I ran into the same problem. But I could resolve it by updating the paths as follows. I could see the problem is with Forward and backward slashes in file paths.

mongod.conf (instead of giving the relative path provide absolute path and also make sure you have "/" instead of "\")

dbpath= C:/mongolearning/db
logpath= C:/mongolearning/mongo-server.log
verbose=vvvvv

and then go to Command prompt:

C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.2\bin>mongod -f "C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.2\bin\mogod.conf" --install

and then

C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.2\bin>net start mongodb

Boom it started.

The MongoDB service is starting. The MongoDB service was started successfully.